Commit 782b94cd authored Jun 30, 2011 by Lachlan McIlroy Committed by Al Viro Aug 01, 2011

block: initialise bd_super in bdget()

bd_super is currently reset to NULL in kill_block_super() so we rely on previous
users of the block_device object to initialise this value for the next user.
This quirk was exposed on RHEL5 when a third party filesystem did not always use
kill_block_super() and therefore bd_super wasn't being reset when a block_device
object was recycled within the cache. This may not be a problem upstream but
makes sense to be defensive.

Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lmcilroy@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

parent c4ae0c65

fs/block_dev.c

+1 −0

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		@@ -552,6 +552,7 @@ struct block_device *bdget(dev_t dev)

		if (inode->i_state & I_NEW) {
		bdev->bd_contains = NULL;
		bdev->bd_super = NULL;
		bdev->bd_inode = inode;
		bdev->bd_block_size = (1 << inode->i_blkbits);
		bdev->bd_part_count = 0;

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